A bag of Yellow-rumped Warblers

Barbara Seith
Oct 8, 2023
2 min read

Seems like it a bag of Yellow-rumped Warblers was dumped out in Rhode Island this week. Suddenly they are everywhere, Trustom Pond Farm Field in particular. I spent my early morning there on Monday -- where I had a ton of diversity & a bag of Yellow-rumps, but also Tuesday where there were at least 2 or 3 bags of the old Butterbutts. On top of the volume, Yellow-rumped Warblers have a huge diversity of plumage this time of year -- at first glance, basically everything looks like a Yellow-rump.

Trustom Pond - entrance to the Farm Field trail

The trail marker that greeted me -- I love the colors of the grasses... and I've never figured out what the numbers mean.

Common Yellowthroat

Field Sparrow

Deer

Common Yellowthroat

Eastern Towhee

Gray Catbird

Eastern Towhee

Lincoln Sparrow

House Wren

Yellow-rumped Warbler

House Wren

Common Yellowthroat

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Blue-headed Vireo

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Mud Pond

American Bittern

Eastern Phoebe

Tuesday morning at Trustom Pond with Maria, Dan Berard, Jan, Sue & Allison. Dan schooled me and Maria -- so many birds it was hard to know where to look -- needless to say we didn't see them all, let alone ID them.

Grasses in the Farm Field

Blue-headed Vireo

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Scarlet Tanager

Eastern Towhee

Female Northern Cardinal

Black-capped Chickadee

Common Yellowthroat

Carolina Wren

Next stop -- Scarborough State Beach looking for the Baird's Sandpiper.

Dunlin

The long sought Baird's Sandpiper

Succotash Marsh -- Northern Harrier

Atlantic Avenue - Snowy Egret

Greater Yellowlegs

The coveted Greater Yellowlegs poop shot!

Double-crested Cormorant

Wednesday was mostly in Jamestown -- starting at Beavertail and moving on to Conanicut Battery. Not as birdy as the last two days.

Common Yellowthroat

Northern Parula

Stopped by South Kingstown Town Beach after a report of the Clay-colored Sparrow. Didn't see one, but did see these lovelies

Savannah Sparrow

Groundhog

A thick layer of fog gave me a late start on Thursday but had a nice visit to Succotash Marsh.

Female Mallard

Laughing Gull

Snowy & Great Egrets & Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Song Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Fog again on Friday started at Galilee Bird Sanctuary - put together this reel to practice for South Africa. It is my first try and a little basic, but it show the birds I saw along with the habitat. Hoping to get much more facile with this tool.

An interesting note -- this thing (I think it is a tree stump) showed up on the Sandbar at Quonnie today. Weird...

Just did the rounds on what was a very gloomy & rainy Saturday but it didn't yield any decent photos. On Sunday I started at Mud Pond having my first drink of my favorite fall coffee -- Maple Pecan and listening to a Clapper Rail in the reeds. I had both a Sharp-shinned Hawk (small one, the size of a Blue Jay and several Cooper's Hawks -- the Hawks are back in force a sign of fall.

Sharp-shinned Hawk